1 killed, 14 hurt in Ohio shooting
A dispute between several men escalated into a gunfight inside nightclub
Washington: Gunfire erupted in a crowded Ohio nightclub early Sunday after a personal dispute boiled over, killing one person and leaving 14 wounded as partygoers scattered into the night, authorities said. The gunman was yet to be arrested.
Gunfire erupted inside a packed nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, early on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 14.
The motive was unclear, but Cincinnati Assistant Police chief Paul Neudigate said on Twitter that “there are no indications this incident is terrorism related.”
The shooting took place around 1am when hundreds of people were inside the Cameo Nightlife club, which the Cincinnati police department said has had “multiple problems” in the past.
“At this point, it’s unclear exactly what instigated the shooting,” Captain Kimberly Williams said at a televised briefing. “Just a lot of chaos when the shots went off.”
The shooting comes less than a year after a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people. It was the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The police initially said they believed at least two shooters were involved in Cincinnati, but later Neudigate said in a Twitter message that there was only one reported gunman, though the police were still trying to determine if there were others.
Hours after the shooting, the suspect was still at large, and the police did not have a good description, in part because witnesses were reluctant to cooperate, Williams told
WCPO. “We are in the middle of a very horrific situation that occurred at the nightclub with multiple victims,” Neudigate said.
“It’s going to be a long night for our homicide units to investigate this incident, but right now things are stable.”
A “dispute” between several men escalated into a gunfight in the crowded venue, BBC reported area police chief Eliot Isaac as saying.
“Several local men got into some kind of dispute inside the bar and it escalated into shots being fired from several individuals,” he said.